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I don't see much risk of a blow out in financial credit spreads any time soon. The balance of risk favors some widening but I expect only slight moderation in 2006.

John Atkinson

There's a widening gap between the number of jobs, and the number of skilled workers who have the technical requirements needed in the modern workplace.

Shirl Boyce

Just fully widening that road to six lanes is going to help considerably.

Greg Svelund

The euro has been the victim of an ever widening interest-rate differential to the dollar, a dynamic that has hurt the currency over the past six months as the carry spread now stands at 175 basis points against it.

Boris Schlossberg

China may widen the trading band but it will be a very small widening, maybe 3 percent. It's not likely for China to go for a big adjustment at one time.

He Fan

The market is in denial about earnings. The story about small caps is that the Russell has consistently outpaced the growth rate for big caps since the second quarter '97, and the margin is widening.

Chuck Hill

[Microsoft expects to widen things up soon, however.] We felt these three companies gave us the strongest coverage nationally and offered the best services, ... but we will be adding more in the near future.

Brian Morris

When you start to widen lanes, you create a safety hazard. We don't have (traffic) congestion out there in east Gainesville and we want to keep it that way.

Barbara Sharpe

There is some vulnerability for swap spreads to widen.

James Sarni

Prospects for widening rate differentials between the U.S. and economies such as Japan and Europe helped the dollar this year and will continue to do so.

Osamu Takashima

The dollar's upward momentum is likely to accelerate on the payrolls figures. The widening U.S. rate gap over Japan and the euro region is strongly supportive for the dollar.

Minoru Shioiri

We believe our move to the NYSE could help increase liquidity and reduce trading volatility of Nordstrom stock, ... Association with the world's largest exchange could also provide Nordstrom improved visibility both on Wall Street and in international markets, which could widen our potential investor base.

John Whitacre

It's not the border that's broken but the U.S. labor market. There is a widening economic gap between immigrants and U.S.-born workers which reflects the broader deterioration in wage and working conditions for less-skilled and low-wage workers.

John Schmitt

We left the door ajar and they kept trying to widen it.

Phil Lumpkin

Within a few months, the deficit will be widening to new records.

Nigel Gault

[But as of now,] there is no official project on the books, ... Any time you get into widening a structure, it's safe to say the cost is several- hundred-thousand dollars if not into the millions.

Colin Jones

They saw the deficits widening, and saw no reason to think the dollar wouldn't drop. In fact, the U.S. economy was beginning to look stronger, and that helped the dollar.

Gerry Celaya

The widening rate gap between the U.S. and HK in the later part of 2006 will likely be accompanied by a strong HK dollar.

George Leung

They said they are widening their investigation because there could be more Philippine politicians that allegedly received confidential information.

Ricardo Diaz

It's hard to believe that any of the candidates in Mexico's election are going to pursue the kind of tax reform and widening of revenue that the country badly needs. We're expecting lower returns and more volatility from Latin America next year.

Paul Mcnamara

It's really interesting what Freddie said at press tour (this summer), ... Desi (Arnaz) unlocked the door, his dad opened it and George kicked it down. Now, I guess, we just have to widen the doorway.

Bruce Helford

It was great for country to come to New York City to widen the scope of what we are trying to do with the genre and dispel some misconceptions about country music in general.

Jay Demarcus

If you widen a beach, then yes, you will reduce impact from certain storms. But take a big hurricane, something like Katrina, and there's no artificial beach we know of that would've prevented that kind of destruction. That did nothing.

Andy Coburn

We still haven't recovered from the hurricanes. The deficit just keeps on widening.

Justin Fohsz

The U.S. is under the false impression that it is the leader in mobile communications and non-PC devices, ... Europe and Japan have a considerable lead over the U.S. and this gap could widen in the future.

Nobuyuki Idei

In 1989 ...their engineers made four recommendations to change the design of the vehicle. Ford didn't do it. They only implemented two of the design changes. The ones they didn't do included widening the vehicle two inches and lowering the vehicle.

Leonard Vitullo

As soon as we have market makers, banks will be given freedom to price dollars against yuan. They would definitely create a market. We expect the margin in which the yuan is traded will widen.

Stephen Green

What will keep swap spreads from widening dramatically is that we are still in (a relatively) low yield environment.

James Sarni

Volatility has certainly reduced despite a widening current account deficit, but capital inflows have been strong and this has helped.

Adenaan Hardien

The hotel business is on fire. I mean, you look at every major city, and the Four Seasons continues to widen its gap over Ritz-Carlton and other premium brands that are out there. But the reality is, you know, the stock is trading at a huge valuation multiple, over 20 times cash flow.

Jason Ader

We have specific instances we feel need to be addressed, ... but other complaints could widen the scope.

David Leblanc

This woman in love with scholarship intends, to be sure, that woman should acquire learning: but it must be for the purpose of developing her intelligence, or raising her heart to serious things, not of widening her field of ambitions, dethroning man.

Christine De Pisan

Over the next few weeks there's a very good chance that China is going to widen the band. Global policy makers have a new resolve to settle the issue of currency flexibility with China and they're prepared to have a show-down if necessary.

David Woo

The deterioration we did see was in energy prices; if you take out energy prices, things improved a bit. The bad news is that September import price data guarantees that we'll have a widening deficit in September.

Kevin Harris

They will naturally come apart as the tracks widen -- about 80 feet. Once we get them separated, we'll go onboard.

Perry Cooper

The spread widening was a little muted given the move in rates.

Neela Gollapudi

You are going to have double the traffic at the worst time. They can't widen the road (because there's no room). It's going to be an absolute nightmare.

Robert Vicino

The last 18 months have shown some progress for low-wage workers. But the majority of gains have been at the upper end. My guess is that the gap is going to be widening. Is everyone going to be better off? I don't think that narrowing is going to be a long-term trend.

Stephen Levy

The southbound inside lane does widen to approximately 16 feet near the intersection. Left turns are permitted in the northbound and southbound directions. Northbound left turns are prohibited during the peak times of 7 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. We will investigate if peak hour restrictions should be considered on the southbound left turn from 12th Avenue South.

Wayne Wentz

In particular, her knowledge of European and global operations will be of immense value to the Exchange as we widen and strengthen the scope of our European business.

Don Cruickshank

We didn't make him throw any pitches. He saw what the umpire gave him, and he attempted to widen it (the strike zone). That shows maturity. Put the stuff away and come back the next time around.

Joel Hawkins

At halftime, we just talked about getting after it on defense, so that we could widen the margin.

Kyle Loomis

The spread has been widening since the beginning of September in favor of the pound. We have seen a stronger sterling against the euro.

Niels From

In our opinion, the supply and demand dynamics have set the stage for a multi-year bull market for gold. Even as companies begin new projects, decreased exploration in the 1990s has caught up with the industry. It generally takes a few years for a new mine to become operational. The gap between production and consumption of gold should widen as output likely stagnates and physical demand rises.

Leo Larkin

We picked it up defensively, created a lot of good things for ourselves and you could see their eyes widening with a few deflections here and there. They just got hungrier and hungrier.

Tracey Hammel

I am expecting it to be done sometime in June or July next year. That's a real difficult job to do because there are several places where it gets choked down. In front of Sexton foods, Race is already three lanes, and they will widen it a little there. But further down in front of Midnight Oil, it's just two lanes so it will cut it down to one lane when they close a lane for construction.

Mark Lane

The construction is tentatively set between 31st Street and 12th Street, ... It will be complete reconstruction to widen the road. There will be heavy traffic ... and we want to get the motoring public up to speed.

Lee Perry

It's very possible we're at the beginning of a current account deficit that is going to widen substantially.

David Bloom

Whilst it may be too early for us to widen our investigation into the arena of corruption, I certainly have not ruled this out. I have indicated to you that many of the individuals that you wished to hear evidence from may be the very people that could be central to our criminal inquiry, either as witnesses or suspects.

John Yates

It's a natural step for the country to gradually widen the trading band. Conditions in China are mature enough for this to happen.

Ha Jiming

I think it (EMBI) will widen further over the next week or so and Russia is going to keep the markets pretty soft.

Chris Portman

St. Paul was a good fundamental team. Every time we would get close, they would hit a three-pointer to widen their lead.

Shane Reid

There is just talk, a primitive agreement, but in our plan there is a widening agreement.

Akif Zagros

This area is some three hundred feet long, but it's very narrow, so we'll have to take a look at how we can widen the area and what kinds of logistical changes we can make and how we do business so that people can still be comfortable.

Walter Elmore

We spent 30 years waiting for them to widen Lacey Road and now we are going to spend another 30 years waiting for our trees to grow back.

John Parker

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Liz Carpenter

One-third of the widening of the deficit is the oil bill, and aircraft sales explains most of the rest. It's a little superficial.

Carl B. Weinberg

There continues to be a slight widening of these riots. In those areas where there is a strong police presence, things are leveling off.

Patrick Hamon

Nobody can focus on a growing, widening net, ... We have to focus on those most likely to re-offend.

John Rees

Without question, Mississippi is going to come back stronger than it was before. It's a proven market, it's a friendly tax rate, and any company that has the means to go back, has to go back. We were at a disadvantage from a marketing standpoint before. This will widen that gap.

Wade Duty

Under current circumstances, it will be very easy for retailers to widen their margins, and many of them are already adding more floor space in stores, which will help boost growth.

Du Plessis

If the liquid benchmarks continue to widen, eventually it will spill over into the less liquid names.

John Teng

I'm worried about that, ... It's a widening gap.

Larry Vanderhoef

This kind of figure is bound to generate negative headlines for New Zealand. Higher oil prices also suggest the deficit could widen further.

Michael Every

As computer users become more mobile, you widen the liability and the risk. Notebook computer makers have to offer these features because corporate clients are asking for them.

Richard Shim

In London trading today, we've seen a further massive widening in spreads on the Brady bonds.

Peter West

If I had to categorize it, I would say the area of extreme fire conditions extend over a good portion of Texas and Oklahoma. Once we get into mid-February, the problem will probably widen into southern New Mexico and Arizona, but until then the focus will be concentrated on almost all of Oklahoma and most of Texas.

Rick Ochoa

The goods and services deficit will continue to widen, especially since after Katrina the United States will be importing more energy products at higher prices.

Nigel Gault

We'll be a little more balanced offensively in terms of running and throwing, ... Last year we had outstanding backs. It was silly not to line up, pound the ball, and let them break off 60-yard runs. We're going to widen out a bit. We do have some weapons.

Tom Little

Re-widening of the interest rate differential will see the Australian dollar higher. Rumors of the Medley report that the Fed will stop tightening at 4.75 percent or 5 percent is below market expectations.

John Rothfield

As for a widening of the negotiations, we have a positive view but this should take place in agreement with other parties.

Manouchehr Mottaki

We also have an opportunity with the topical committees to ... reach out further to these groups. This process is kind of an ever-widening circle of getting people involved.

Jennifer Lindbom

Here is a case where on this core issue where he is instead polarizing again and widening.

Ron Brownstein

Overall, trade deficits tend to widen with hurricanes, due to the Southeast region's bias towards exports to Latin America over imports.

Mike Englund

Thailand will no longer remain China's gateway to the South. While Thailand will remain a good market for Chinese exports, the trade balance is likely to widen.

Professor Sompop Manarungsan

If the committee wants to go further this year in widening its interpretation of peace, the prize could go to Bono or Geldof.

Stein Toennesson

There is always this worry that such a spending plan will widen the budget deficit. If India misses the deficit target again, it could dilute its commitment to fiscal consolidation. Giving dole doesn't resolve poverty.

Ping Chew

We see buying opportunities. On a purely yield basis, we prefer Treasuries over European bonds. The spread will continue to widen.

Tadashi Tsukaguchi

By making access through the downtown area easier for local traffic, it will hopefully limit the need to excessively widen the interstate when that point comes.

Roger Hawk

China has to move to a more flexible foreign currency trading system, no question about that. You might see two or three moves to widen the band, say to 0.5 percent.

Arjuna Mahendran

We think that's because the clinical marker, specifically the widening of the chest, is something we have all been attuned to since the anthrax attack of 2001.

Stephen Sisson

The board believes it has taken a significant step in recognition of the widening role of online journalism at newspapers.

Sig Gissler

It wouldn't have been a bad year if prices hadn't improved. They were realizing 3-4 cents a pound improvement in costs each quarter. So unlike other aluminum companies, they can keep the spread widening whether price goes up or not.

Clarence Morrison

I think they (ITV) will probably do more different things and you will perceive that gap widening over the next few years.

Peter Fincham

This is a rural area, with very narrow roads and deep ditches on either side. It's going to cost major bucks to widen these roads.

Ben Jordan

The only thing we can do is widen the highway, and that's a major construction project.

Ed Pultorak

Israel is of course interested in widening its official diplomatic relations with as many countries as possible and especially Muslim countries.

Zalman Shoval